Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education

The aim of this course is to develop students’ competence in and awareness of academic English in order to successfully develop strategies for reading academic texts related to the subject of Education and exploit key text content for further study purposes including written work, seminar discussion and oral seminar presentation. It focuses on developing grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and style in the context of early childhood education so that academic and socio/cultural assimilation can easily occur.

Course Content

• Education in Ancient Greece
• Understanding Schools through a historical perspective
• The importance of Education
• Types of Learning Style
• Preschool Education objectives
• The importance of play
• Bilingual Education
• Kindergarten Goals
• Classroom rules
• Traits of the Kindergarten Teacher
• Education and Certification
• Stories and story reading
• Lesson Plan Formats
• Assessing the Lesson
• Classroom Language: Getting Attention, Generating Repetition, Checking for Understanding
• Language Skills: Reading Strategies, Writing Strategies, Math Skill Strategies
• Classroom Management Theory and Method

Teaching Material

• Stamatia Psaroudakis, “Introduction to Education: English for students of Pre-school and Primary school Education”, Disigma Publications 2020
• Virginia Evans, Jenny Dooley & Rebecca Minor, “Career Paths: Kindergarten Teacher”, Express Publishing 2014